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October 16, 2009

Academy's "Fascism" An Orwellian Misnomer

Mitchell Langbert

A couple of months ago Carlin Romano of the University of Pennsylvania wrote an excellent review of Stephen H. Norwood's Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campu......

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October 16, 2009

At Least There's No Hidden Bias at This College

George Leef

The college I mean is the National Labor College, an accredited, degree-granting institution run by the AFL-CIO. In this Pope Center piece, I write about the NLC. The curriculum is pro-union through......

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October 16, 2009

The Dark Side of Diversity

Ashley Thorne

"Being white and straight, I felt doubly cursed with a dearth of fascinating material. What story could I tell to prove my worth?" One woman's college experience provides a glimpse at how the dive......

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October 15, 2009

Will Layoffs Be Based on Diversity?

Jonathan Bean

In recent weeks, the USA Today and National Public Radio have crowed that this recession is different: most of  those losing jobs were men (and predominantly white). This is "encouraging" accor......

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October 15, 2009

Found: A Fellow Sustainability-Challenger

Ashley Thorne

NAS has published an interview with Holly Swanson, the founder and director of an Oregon-based group called Operation Green Out! (the exclamation point is part of its name!). We first learned of&nbs......

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